July 19, 2011

Hey Family,

This week not much happened so this will be a short e-mail. Shotly after e-mailing on tuesday i was not feeling the best so that night when we had soccer with the young men i didn´t play. Then i woke up wednesday morning and was not feeling the best but we still went out and did a division with Taina and Evandro and visited a couple people. It started to rain ad my umbrella broke so my head was getting wet but i didn~t think to much of it. Then the next day i woke up and my throat was absolutely killing me and my head was hurting and i had a fever and there was no way i was getting out of bed. We called Sister Pavan and she had the mission doctor call. He said he thought it might be strep so i needed to go visit the doctor. I went to the doctor after lunch and ended up having to wait for over 2 hours. Finally he looked at my throat really quick and said i had an infection and that i needed to take some medicine. So we went and checked how much the medicine was and bought it. It ended up being 50 Reais. Then Sister Pavan said to stay in that night. Then the next day i was feeling a bit better but Elder Anderson was really sick and it was raining so after lunch i came back to the house and just slept like Elder Anderson. That night i couldn´t sleep and was up all night coughing almost to the point of throwing up. The next day we were supposed to help with people moving. Elder Dowden and Elder Jacques ended up helping while Elder Anderson and I stayed home again, which is good because it started to rain again. Then on Sunday i was feeling alot better and we went to church and then lunch and things were going good. Then we were out visting pople and it started to rain really hard and no one was in there house so we ended up going to the Bishops house since it was close and spending a bit of time there warming up and drying off. We tried this weird drink that was oranges cinnamon ginger and some other thing. Then we ended up going to the house early because i was not feeling good and i was getting rained on all night. Then yesterday i was not allowed to go out because it was raining all day and Sister Pavan didn´t want me to go out and get more sick. Elder Jacques and Elder Dowden ended up doing visits in our area and also in Estrela. Right now i am in Santa Cruz because we have a Zone Conference tomorrow with a 70. I am not sure who it is going to be. It is going to be in Porto Alegre which will be good. I am doing better health wise i just have a bit of a headache and have allergies for some reason. Well that was about my week. Sorry it is short. Thanks for all of you prayers and support i definately need them and they helped me get over this sickness faster. Thank you all and love you very much.

Love Elder Cefalo